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ISLINGTON, LONDON, UK (ANS) <\/strong>\u2014 Church attendances in the United Kingdom, in freefall for so long, have started to rise again, particularly in Britain\u2019s capital city.<\/p>\n
Numbers on the electoral rolls are increasing by well over two per cent every year, while some churches have seen truly dramatic rises in numbers, according to Peter Oborne, writing for the\u00a0Daily Telegraph<\/em><\/a>newspaper.<\/p>\n
Oborne says change is afoot in Britain\u2019s churches. He says that with the chill wind of austerity blowing through the country, religion\u2019s warm embrace looks more and more inviting. Oborne welcomes the resurgence of a national pastime: churchgoing.<\/p>\n
Oborne writes that for many years it was accepted that Christianity was all but dead, an anachronistic relic of the past whose foundations had been destroyed by modern science and rationalism, before being left behind by the cultural and sexual revolution of the \u201960s.<\/p>\n
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